SIENA & NIST
SIENA’s objectives are complementary to the role of the US National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) in cloud standards, guidance and technology. NIST
partners with the EC and SIENA specifically in these areas. SIENA & NIST have developed
a working relationship to help exchange efforts in common needs, recommendations
and next steps.

Publications

Do they mean us?

International standardisation efforts will also have a huge impact on cloud computing.
Open specifications are a key in creating competitive and flourishing markets that
deliver what customers need. Europe can play a big role here – building on, for
example, the SIENA initiative and its development of a "standardisation roadmap
for clouds and grids for e-Science and beyond". I count here on the further support
and commitment of Microsoft and all the other participants.

Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission

The potential benefits of cloud computing in business, public services and scientific
research are widely recognised. Efforts like the SIENA standardisation roadmap will
be very useful in making these benefits materialise.

I hope and expect that the SIENA Roadmap will make an important contribution to setting policy in the EU Digital Agenda.

Carlo DaffaraConecta & Interim Roadmap Chair

SIENA represents the ideal point of contact between the major cloud actors-industry, standard bodies, research groups. Our Roadmap charts the future of European Clouds and research in the e-Infrastructure ecosystem.

John BorrasOASIS

My involvement with SIENA has been a very interesting exercise and has enabled me to become more conversant with a community, i.e. the eScience community, with which I was not familiar.

Gotz-Philip BrascheEMIC & VENUS-C

I have significantly increased the visibility of SIENA in our interoperability team back at Microsoft, Redmond and vice versa and facilitated participation plus back channeling to NIST in the US.

Mark CarlsonOracle, SNIA & DMTF

SIENA has given the SNIA and DMTF cloud efforts good exposure in the European scientific cloud markets and have been instrumental in refining requirements for that space.

Subrata ChattopadhyayC-DAC

The structured effort of SIENA on standardization is really commendable. Our effort on bringing interoperability between Garuda and EGI hopefully will be much simpler after the completion of this complex exercise spanning across the world, many communities and practices.

Guy CoatesWellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Involvement with SIENA has given me a good understanding of the need for cloud standards, and has made me more aware of the work European organisations are undertaking.

Ake EdlundKTH & ECEE

Through my role in SIENA I discussed that ECEE should act as an activity feeding REB. My role offered a platform for collaboration with other Distributed Computing Infrastructures for my work on VENUS-C.

Mike FisherBT & ETSI

Participation in SIENA has certainly ensured that I am well informed as to the current status and interests of significant standards bodies as well as the position of some of the Distributed Computing Infrastructure projects.

Vangelis FlorosGRNET & StratusLab

Participation of StratusLab in SIENA events has offered a catalyzing role in our activities related to cloud standards.

Patrick GuilleminETSI

I liked the possibility offered to cooperate with ETSI interoperability services (Plugtests), ETSI TC CLOUD and Cloud/Future Internet research community. Perhaps is there still a challenge to develop Cloud standards for the Industry, eGov and Open Data in addition to the successful research and academic efforts?

Fabrizio GagliardiMicrosoft Research

Microsoft has supported SIENA from the very start. SIENA road-mapping exercise is useful for industry to monitor the evolution of standards and interoperability in a still rather evolving environment such as Cloud Computing.

Gershon JanssenKLM Royal Dutch Airlines & OASIS

The SIENA roadmap events helped very much in defining the cloud computing space and required elements for practical use in industry, eGovernment and eScience contexts.

Craig LeeOGF Board of Directors, and Past President

The SIENA REB is critical for coordinating cloud roadmaps on an international scale. OGF is actively contributing to the NIST Cloud Standards Roadmap, and the SIENA REB provides that critical venue.

Ignacio LlorenteComplutense University of Madrid

Involvement with SIENA has led OpenNebula to increase our support to this standard and to allocate more resources to its enhancement and support.

Bob MarcusSRI International

I have organized a NIST Ad Hoc team on best practices based on my experience with SIENA, which is now the largest Cloud Working Group within NIST's Cloud initiative.

Steven NewhouseEGI.eu & EGI-InSPIRE

Through EGI-InSPIRE's participation in the SIENA project we were able to have stimulating discussions with many European and international cloud technology providers & SDOs that helped develop and refine our own cloud computing strategy & evolve our own roadmap.

Alexander PapaspyrouTechnische Univ. Dortmund & IGE

Contributing to the SIENA evolution scenarios has enabled the Initiative for Globus in Europe to disseminate our perspective on the future of Distributed Computing Infrastructures.

Morris RiedelJülich Supercomputing Centre & EMI

SIENA discussions on the relevance of standards and the agreement on their importance have confirmed the correctness of the European Middleware Initiative focus on standardization fostered new ideas about emerging standards.

Hiroshi SakaiNTT

Participation in SIENA has enabled me to get more understanding of European cloud activities and has let me share the SIENA cloud standards roadmap with Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum in Japan.

Etienne UrbahLAL, Univ Paris-Sud & EDGI

The European Desktop Grid Initiative is looking at how to align our 'Roadmap for Desktop Grids for eScience' with a possible general direction for Distributed Computing Infrastructures as explored by the SIENA Roadmap.